Re: perl 6 and web open source projects

2007-12-09 Thread cdumont
herbert breunung wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: I do think It Would Be Nice If there were a native Perl6 DRY/MVC/OMG/WTF/BBQ webapp dev framework ready to go (go where? into a webapp-oriented P6 distro, natch) around the same time that the lang itself is done. I imagine a port of Catalyst would fi

Re: Switch/Given and English, Was perl 6 grammar

2007-12-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
I think the idea is that if your programming language keywords are all English anyway, you might as well have them make sense *as* English. That makes it easier for English-speakers to learn, without making it harder for non-English speakers - except for the fact that it's different from other prog

Re: Switch/Given and English, Was perl 6 grammar

2007-12-09 Thread cdumont
Richard Hainsworth wrote: I don't know why, this given... when sounds so 'English' without really being that English. The construct sounds better in English than ... case ...> because: a) Switch is more commonly used in English as a noun, eg., Use the switch to turn on the light. But beca

Re: Standards bearers (was "Re: xml and perl 6")

2007-12-09 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 08 December 2007 06:50:48 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Surely, some concentrated thought by the inventive and resouceful minds of > who lead this project should go into language utilisation and > popularisation. My goodness, @Larry's pretty darn busy trying to build the core kernel of

Re: perl 6 and web open source projects

2007-12-09 Thread herbert breunung
Mark J. Reed wrote: I do think It Would Be Nice If there were a native Perl6 DRY/MVC/OMG/WTF/BBQ webapp dev framework ready to go (go where? into a webapp-oriented P6 distro, natch) around the same time that the lang itself is done. I imagine a port of Catalyst would fit the bill nicely. As fa

once promised Perl 6 Tutorial

2007-12-09 Thread herbert breunung
as you all can see under http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?tutorial I started to get real with. The main idea is that i want to keep an wiki and not make an POD out of it because i think Hypertext is better for learning. It is basicaly an english mirror of my german tut and thats go